Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delighted [by the appointment] because he is the best person for the job," Goldhaber said of Henry, who is currently associate dean for government and community affairs and chair of the department of oral diagnosis and oral radiology at the Dental School...
...given the legislative history of the 1989 flag law, which shows that Congress intends to silence "anti-American" sentiment, the justices probably will not change their minds. Justice Antonia Scalia indicated as much in the oral arguments last Monday...
...like N.W.A. and the 2 Live Crew call for the fire of war against police or the brimstone of explicit, sulfurous sex. Comedians like Sam Kinison and Howard Stern bring locker-room laughs to cable TV and morning radio. On network television, sitcom moms get snickers with innuendos about oral sex. In movies, the F word has become so common, like dirty wallpaper, the industry's conservative ratings board doesn't even bother to punish the occasional use of it with a restrictive R rating...
Hartman's ally is Judaism's oral tradition, the Talmud, which itself mediates, or "corrects," biblical literalism. But then the question becomes, Who says what the tradition is? The answer is, Anyone who can make his interpretations stick. Too often authority is gained through raw political power, or compelled by blind allegiance to a religious sect. But sometimes, as in Hartman's case, interpretive validity is achieved through the simple force of intellect...
About a week later, I had a French oral exam with a young woman professor. After I had translated some English sentences into the preterite, she told me I had done well, and then that I looked too thin...